On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:59:26AM -0500, Kent Schumacher wrote: > I've run into a website that is not allowing me to enter on the > basis that it can't identify my browser. > > https://community.sterlingcommerce.com > > I've run into this on other web sites, but I've always been able > to trivially bypass it by modifying my USER_AGENT string - in opera > by doing a simple click on the 'identify' button, or in mozilla by > editing my prefs.js file. > > Neither of these techniques seem to work in this case. > > Does anyone have any idea what this site is looking for? Any ideas > how to bypass it? > > (I'm not 'cracking'. I'm the IT manager for a wood distribution firm > and Home Depot is requiring us to use sterling as there online invoicing > firm. A rather asinine and poor use of the web if you ask me - I would > much rather fire off an XML formatted invoice to a server somewhere rather > than tie up a clerical worker filling in a web form... But I digress...) > > (I've also contacted their tech support and they feel it is impossible > to fix their web site. They must be using some of those stone tablet > computer chips...) > > Kent > I just successfully connected using konqueror. I set my identity to IE 5.5 (Windows NT) and it brought me to the login page. -- Jim Kaufman mailto:jmk at linuxforbusiness.net Linux Evangelist cell: 612-481-9778 public key 0x6D802619 fax: 952-937-9832 http://www.linuxforbusiness.net --- He hasn't one redeeming vice. -- Oscar Wilde _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list